Philosophy Ph.D. Reading List

On Nature

Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Theaetetus

Categories, Posterior Analytics I.1-6, 18, 33-4; II.1-2, 8-11, 19, Physics I-III.3, On the Soul, Metaphysics I-IX, XII, Nicomachean Ethics

Discourses I-II

Enneads (selection by A.H. Armstrong, 1953)

Confessions, City of God VIII and XIX 

Mystical Theology, The Divine Names 

Monologion, Proslogion

The Metaphysics of "The Healing" (trans. M. Marmura) I.1-7, V, VIII.3-7

The Incoherence of the Incoherence (trans. S. Van Den Bergh) 4th, 5th and 13th Discussions 

Guide of the Perplexed Introduction to First Part, I.50-II.31, III.8-24 

The Itinerary of the Mind into God, The Reduction of the Arts to Theology 

Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.1-5, 90-97, De ente et essentia 

Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 1: I, dist.3, qu. 1; II, dist.3, part 1, qu. 1-6 

Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 4-8, Questions on the Physics I, qu. 132-36, Quodlibet I, qu. 1 

Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method 

Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology 

An Essay concerning Human Understanding Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1-13, 19-27, 31-33, Bk. 3, ch. 1-3; Bk. 4, ch. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19 

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 

First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts 

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Pure Reason 

"Philosophy of Spirit" Part 3 of the Encyclopedia of Philosophic Sciences 

Fear and Trembling, Concluding Unscientific Postscript 

Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women 

Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spake Zarathustra 

An Introduction to Metaphysics 

Ideas I, sec. 2: "The Fundamental Phenomenological Outlook," "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity" (Vienna Lecture, in the appendix to Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology) 

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations 

Being and Time, "What is Metaphysics?" "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking"